Miles of Smiles: 101 Great Car Games and Activities

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Customer Reviews:

Lots of activities.......2005-07-19

This was a great book, we have used it on 2 long trips so far and love it. There are tongue twisters, jokes, and lots of activities for everyone to participate in. A great buy!!

it's all about the journey there!.......2002-04-26

I've seen those ads for minivans with little monitors for passengers in the back seats to watch movies. Frankly, the idea of appals me! Don't our children also need a vacation from TV & movies? How much real life are they missing? How dull will our children's brains become, being force-fed with endless artificial stories?

"Are we there yet?" is a question rarely asked when you bring MILES OF SMILES along on your journeys. It is a good book for travellers, chock-a-block with things to do with eyes & brains. Thinking on the move, exercising the brain cells, learning to wrap the tongue around strange words, thinking inside the head, rather than passively, staring into space as someone else's ideas reel into the mind.

In my childhood, the only way we went on vacations was by family car. My mother was the driver, with my father navigating. To retain his sanity, he invented all sorts of brain teasing games. So, I was thrilled when I came upon Carole Terwilliger Meyers' handy little book MILES OF SMILES. It's perfect for a glove compartment or a seat pocket. I have, however, played many of these games with my kids on busses, trains, even 'planes.

MILES OF SMILES is a book that will let you think, use your brain, get to know your family. It has a whole slew of new games to play, which can be adapted to any age passengers. In the Introduction, Carole Terwilliger Meyers even gives parents a clue as to how to entice teenagers into the games.

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101 ways to energize any ho-hum day

Created by award-winning educators, these easy-to-learn, giggle-as-you-go games are designed to be both fun and educational. These activities in reading, logic, science, measuring, listening, social studies, and math are the perfect complement to your K-5 curriculum.

Get the fun and the learning started with games such as:

Bug Bite: Players flip over vocabulary word cards and slap the table when a bug card comes up. Whoever slaps first reads all the words and then keeps the card. The child with the most cards wins!

Bull's-Eye Feather Math: Children blow feathers around a bull's-eye game board with straws as they sharpen their multiplication skills.

Geography Baseball: Players find map locations that are “pitched” to them. The more “hits” they get, the faster they score runs.

Fishy Facts: Players snag paper fish with a fishing pole and hook. If they can answer the question on the side of the fish, they score.

. . . and many more!

BONUS: Games are ranked for noise levels!

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Excellent Resource for Group Leaders
Simply Superb

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101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving

ASIN: 0787941387

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Training dynamite!

Training mastermind Arthur VanGundy, author of the best-selling Brain Boosters for Business Advantage, has assembled 101 original games and activities guaranteed to satisfy almost every conceivable training need.

These dynamic exercises are accompanied by:

Concise objectives

Recommended uses

Suggested audience

Required time

Necessary materials

Detailed procedures

Potential discussion topics

Possible variations . . . and more!

Get VanGundy's best-selling game assortment and add these simple, practical, power-packed resources to your training arsenal today!

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Resource for Group Leaders.......2007-04-01

One of my professors contributed to this book; I lead support groups, facilitate workshops, etc. and find this an excellent resource. The different activities can be adapted to any situation. This is the only resource you need for ice breakers, group activities, etc for adults. It is expensive but well worth the price and the loose leaf notebook format makes it easy to use. You do have to assemble it however, you would think for the price that would already be done but it only takes a few minutes.

Simply Superb.......2001-03-18

This bestseller is an outstanding resource for trainers, facilitators and anyone who wants to add zest to meetings.

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Not worth the money

101 More Great Games and Activities
Arthur B. VanGundy , Robert Alan Black , and Holly M. O'Neill
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The Big Book of Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things to Do

ASIN: 0787969001

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In 1998, Pfeiffer published the best-selling resource 101 Great Games & Activities. Like that original publication, 101 More Great Games & Activities is filled with highly accessible group activities, icebreakers, energizers, and closers. This new resource is written to appeal to today’s trainers and includes exercises that address timely topics such as career development, change management, clarifying expectations, climate setting, communication, creativity, diversity, evaluation, goal setting, implementation, interviewing, leadership, listening, negotiation, problem solving, team building, and clarifying values. To facilitate ease-of-use, Arthur VanGundy presents the dynamic activities in the order in which they might be used during training programs and shows exactly why and how to use them.

101 More Great Games & Activitiesis designed to help you get the most from your training sessions, workshops, meetings, and presentations.

Use the book’s Selection Guide to zero in on the activities that best apply to your particular situation.
Select from a variety of pre- and post-training activities that you can easily incorporate with the core training topics you already offer.
Adapt the exercises to conduct a thorough debriefing and evaluation of your new or ongoing training.

Customer Reviews:

Not worth the money.......2005-12-14

This book is not worth 100 $. Maybe 25... Look for other books on the team-training field. Most of the activities is based on "questions on flipover"-activities. I really missed the good ideas for games and thrilling activities here. So, I was really disappointed after reading the book.
- Storeny, Norway.

Broomstick Demonstration: A Download from 101 Great Games and Activities (Pfeiffer Electronic Downloads)

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Broomstick Demonstration: A Download from 101 Great Games and Activities (Pfeiffer Electronic Downloads)

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When two sides polarize about a change, pushing for it and against it at the same time, the change will become difficult and unmanageable. This activity demonstrates this concept and shows participants how increasing driving forces for change rather than simply removing resistance can be a positive and almost revolutionary experience. Contributed by M.K. Key, Blair Nickle, and Caroline Portis.

Objectives:

To provide an example of Lewin’s Force Field Analysis

To help participants see the differences between driving and restraining forces

To facilitate overcoming or weakening restraining forces in order to reach a desired state

Group Size: Any size

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Perfect for hiring managers, this exercise teaches participants how to bring out the best in people by posing statements and questions that cause job candidates to describe meaningful experiences they have had in the past. Participants learn how to uncover what candidates can do for the organization in actual situations. Contributed by Janice Kilgore.

Objectives:

To provide a basic outline for drawing our responses from job candidates

To help people explore their experiences that are relevant to future jobs

To help both parties in an interview “own” the process

Group Size: Any size

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All effective communication is tailored to a specific audience. A boss is no different. Advocacy is the principal skill involved in “managing” your supervisor. This exercise demonstrates how following some simple advocacy guidelines will help to effectively persuade supervisors. The activity is helpful for teaching negotiation skills and persuasive communication techniques or for general employee training. Contributed by Merry C. Buchanan.

Objective:

To prepare employees to present and advocacy message to a supervisor

Group Size: Any size

Time Required: 30 minutes for preparation and discussion and 5 to 6 minutes per presentation

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Influence, Not Authority: A Download from 101 Great Games and Activities (Pfeiffer Electronic Downloads)

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This activity provides practice in making persuasive presentations and allows participants to analyze, in depth, the factors that determine successful influencing. Can be used as a mid-session stimulator, using topics that reflect the content of the training or as a closer to help summarize the day’s events. Contributed by Marlene Caroselli.

Objective:

To develop awareness that context is as important as content when attempting to persuade

Group Size: Any size in groups of 4 or 5

Time Required: About 25 minutes for 20 participants, shorter or longer, depending on number

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KNOWU Cards: A Download from 101 Great Games and Activities (Pfeiffer Electronic Downloads)
Arthur B. VanGundy
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ASIN: B0007NXRAK

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This mixing activity is helpful for large groups who are meeting for the first time or for diverse groups, such as members of a work team and their guests at a social event.

Objective:

To help participants meet, mix, and mingle with others and get to “know u”

Group Size: 30 or more, or vary the activity for smaller groups

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Many people are unaware of an alternative to traditional brainstorming know as “brainwriting” – the silent, written generation of ideas in a group. This activity is good for idea generation or creativity training and for teaching brainstorming techniques.

Objectives:

To learn about brainstorming and brainwriting

To compare the effectiveness of brainstorming and brainwriting

Group Size: Any size, with a minimum of 2 groups of 3 to 5 each

Time Required: 15 minutes

Book Description

A comprehensive guide to designing and operating reliable server environments

Keep your data center cool, clean, scalable, and secure

Learn the five principles of effective data center design

Avoid the natural and man-made hazards that can jeopardize a data center site

Learn how to lay out key infrastructure objects within the data center for greatest efficiency, from buffer zones to server rows

Apply proven installation methods by studying sample illustrations of both overhead and under-floor systems

Extract the best practices and design strategies for both in-room and standby electrical infrastructure

Avoid accidental downtime, improve productivity, and ensure user safety

Safeguard and streamline your network infrastructure with a well-organized physical hierarchy

Understand the special challenges of retrofitting overburdened server environments

Implement solutions from a wide array of sample illustrations and examples of essential data center signage

Safeguard servers with operations standards for people working in or visiting the data center

Download templates used by Cisco to design its data centers, customizable to square footage and geography

Avoid excess construction costs by designing a data center that meets your needs today and for many years to come

All data centers are unique, but they all share the same mission: to protect your company’s valuable information. Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business answers your individual questions in one flexible step-by-step reference guide.

Benefit from the author’s concise and practical approach to data center design and management. The author distills this complex topic by sharing his first-hand and worldwide experience and expertise. Regardless of your experience level, you can fill your knowledge gaps on how to safeguard your company’s valuable equipment and intellectual property.

This easy-to-navigate book is divided into two parts: Part I covers data center design and physical infrastructure details, and Part II covers data center management and operations. You can also access supplementary online materials for installation instructions, which include customizable data center design templates, written cabling specifications, and sample drawings.

If you need a starting point for designing your first data center, regardless of size; if you need to prepare yourself with comprehensive strategies to retrofit or improve an existing one; or if you need proven methods to manage a data center for maximum productivity—this book is your readily accessible, comprehensive resource for answers and insights.

Invest in the best future for your business by learning how to build and manage robust and productive data centers now.

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press‚ which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

Customer Reviews:

Helpful handbook.......2006-04-17

This CiscoPress book is quite an outsider compared to other more classical CiscoPress material. It does not talk about networking itself but about how to build
the physical infrastructure to host a data center, focusing on several areas such as temperature control, electrical and networking availability, or simply explains how to choose between raised floor or ceiling installations... The author of the book manages over 40 data centers all around the world, so you will find every now and then a text box with Douglas' tips or field experiences, which are
very valuable.

The first 9 chapters focus on designing and implementing a data center, from choosing an ideal site and sizing it right, tips on how to present the project to the executives and getting their approval, selecting the contractors who will build the data center etc.
It goes on a chapter at the time talking about the cooling infrastructure, the electrical layout and sizing, the most efficient network layout for both copper and fiber cabling.
The layout of the room is discussed all over these chapters explaining to the reader why not to put all small servers in the same rack (which could be a problem for eletrical and networking availability, heat generation or/and weight), or why the racks must align with floor tiles, how to creare cold and warm rows... Several layout examples are given showing their weaknesses and strengths.
Structural issues are discussed, such as problems with building the room on an upper floor compared to a ground floor, proximity to electromagnetic fields, to heavily polluted areas, or to sismic areas.
Guidelines for employees behaviour in the data center are also stated, with examples of what could happen if these rules are not strictly followed..
The remaining 6 chapters focus on how to get the best out of your data center and to keep it working at its best. Exemples of signage and labeling are shown to
help out the users do the right thing even in emergency situations. Douglas migth seem maniacal about labeling, but my own experience can confirm all he says...label everything!
Items to have in stock and everyday tools are listed to remind us which things should never be missing to help avoiding situations where system administrators cannot complete their job because of a missing patch cord or screwdriver.
Monitoring and professional room cleaning are the last two items discussed in the book and Douglas' experience is very valuable in both areas to give us some tips.

I found this book very interesting since I am running a data center that needs retrofitting soon and Douglas' experiences might come very handy to me. The language is very easy to follow as with most CiscoPress books, which is important for non-English people!

Guidance for Building a Data Center.......2005-10-07

When individuals consider recent events from natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes to terrorist attacks like September 11th, not to mention new government regulations within areas like HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley the need to secure organizations information is becoming more critical. Thus an organizations desire to design and/or construct a data center that will meet these needs has increased.

With in the book "Building the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business" by Douglas Alger guidance for items that need to be considered are presented in a detailed format. The general population and most companies assume that they can set a computer room or data area up without any issues or difficulties, hence it is always assumed that if you have knowledge of Server and Network design and someone that has an understanding of construction you can do it. But when you design a Data Center and consider items like power usage and cooling needs, you need to consider other items like fire suppression and redundant power sources. Within Alger's book we see items that most computer engineers will take for granted like raised flooring, and HVAC (cooling). But we also see items that some may consider common sense like generator power and supply guidance for fueling these generators.

This book I found an excellent baseline and for as the author said in the introductory pages "Setting up a data center is easy. Except that the first time you do it you're going to screw up badly." Hence as I read this book I found myself returning to discussions and implementations I did a few years ago and could see where we made mistakes and learned from them. Alger was correct in his statement and I was further able to reflect in my mind on the discussions that we had on items that included spacing and area needed for computers and networks then on topics like power utilization and cooling needs where always being considered. As I mentioned Alger's book provided me with reflections and will provide anyone reading it individuals with the needed initial guidance on either building or what to consider when improvements both a computer rooms or a data centers. While this book may appear small at only 374 pages including the index, its detail and guidance will add to anyone's knowledge or needs.

Some of the information and definitions like what is a "U" and the difference between DC and AC power are discussed ,but also items like how to properly clean the room with pH neutral items and services as well as how to gather metrics only enhance the books value and understanding. While the book does limit itself to certain rack sizes and power utilizations not comparable with newer equipment occurring today, it does provide an excellent guideline.

I can only hope that you like myself find the book informative and consider it, if nothing more than a guidance on how to work with a proper computer room and data center environment.

Review Comments.......2005-08-26

This is an excellent intorduction to facilities considerations for the data center. I think it would be very useful for an IT professional to get a sound understanding of the scope for the physical layer. There is little comprehensive material available today on this aspect of data center planning and management.

Its refreshing to see an IT manufacturer taking the initiative to address the facilities impacts that arise from the equipment they offer. Most IT vendors out there today leave this up to the customer. Its clear from reading this that Cisco and the author in particular understand this pain and are taking steps to alleviate it. This publication is a customer satisfaction home run in my eyes.

There is a entertaining aspect to this book as well in the real world stories drawn from the authors experience that help to drive home what can happen when to little attention is paid to arguebly the most critical layer of the data center.

We are in the process of purchasing multiple copies of this book for distribution to our data center, IT, application and network managers.

Good for execs, not for techs........2005-08-17

As a introductory primer, this book is passable. As a systems engineer, it offered what I'd term "common sense". There were some formulas to make calculations but not enough, in my opinion, to justify the price. I have not downloaded the online materials yet (including the promised data center design diagrams), but the examples in the book are laughably obvious (at least to a tech).

If you are an executive, this book would be an good resource. Technicians, particularly those with a few years exposure to different data center environments, will find the content mostly redundant. There are a few bright spots, but not enough.

The Best Book I've Seen on the Subject.......2005-07-26

Setting up a data center is easy. Except that the first time you do it you're going to screw up badly. In order to make as much sense as he does, the writer of this book must have screwed up several installations. It's clear that he knows whereof he speaks.

There are only a couple of areas that I'd stress more highly. He talks of power and cooling. A lot of people used such figures, especially people who were setting up big co-location centers. Then these new 1U and 2U servers started coming out, and the number of watts per square foot or meter skyrocketed. Watts were a direct measure of power needed, and in turn of the amount of cooling needed. It also seems that every new Intel processor needs more power. The new Pentium D takes about 140 watts. Four of them in a 2U cabinet is over 600 watts per unit (adding a little for other stuff). 24 of these in a rack is 14,400 watts in about a square meter. The highest rating he shows is 2,000 watts per square meter. Do some calculating before you design.

The next thing I'd add is put your backup center a long ways away from your primary center, like maybe in Europe. A fully redundant center in the same building when an earthquake/bomb/hurricane/fire cuts off power/telephone or whatever does you no good. You might want to outsource this secondary site, just as he says. Or maybe you can put it in the London office and get a good excuse to go visit once in a while.

This book is just about the best summary of data center facility design I've seen.

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